> Overall, the screwworm program seems like a classic case of something becoming a victim of its own success: a problem got solved so thoroughly that we forget how big of a problem it was, and we gradually undermine the conditions that made the solution possible.

Chesterson's Fence strikes again. It's so easy to wax poetic about how ineffective government spending always is and should be cut to the bone that we don't stop to recognize that preventative programs like this save us from billions in economic losses.

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JKCalhoun an hour ago | parent | next [-]

"Some anti-screwworm efforts may have been hindered by DOGE, which cut APHIS staff, screwworm monitoring programs, and may have delayed funding for the Mexico facility…"

Yep.

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consensus1 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The article is very clear that the issue arose in 2021 and the main causes are increased migration / cattle smuggling across the Darien Gap and over zealous COVID lockdowns. But sure, cherry pick that quote because you want to blame something that happened 4 years after the problem started.

	▲	jmye 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> The article is very clear that the issue arose in 2021 “Sometime around 2023, the barrier at Panama failed” And further text suggesting a fairly normal incursion in ‘21 that didn’t become a major issue until much later. > and over zealous COVID lockdowns “The disruption caused by COVID-19 seems to be partly to blame” I love when people insert hyper-inflammatory bullshit because they have a stupid axe to grind. There are like, 10 paragraphs of equally relevant contributors, but you picked out the two that make you angry and are pretending those are the “main causes”? Come the fuck on.